Saturday, March 22, 2008

Saturday Music Digest

A new Steve Miller interview-many people don't know that Steve is Les Paul's godson!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/21/PKJOVG208.DTL&type=music

Review of the new Van Morrison retrospective DVD

http://www.bloggernews.net/114667

Nice video of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who's been honored the past couple of years at JazzFest in New Orleans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNq8DejQRN8

"Hey Joe" was covered by Hendrix, and even later by Buckwheat Zydeco, but The Leaves did it first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWv03Wgz0PQ&feature=related

A new Rolling Stones movie is due out soon...

http://www.shinealightmovie.com/

And finally, the (remaining) Beatles will try to block release of the previously mentioned early Star Club recordings.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/22/nbeatles122.xml